1920 Swedish general election

General elections were held in Sweden between 4 and 17 September 1920,[1] the last before universal suffrage was introduced the following year.[2] The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 75 of the 230 seats in the Second Chamber of the Riksdag.[3] Later in October 1920 Hjalmar Branting was succeeded as Prime Minister by Baron Louis De Geer.

1920 Swedish general election

4 September 1920

All 230 seats in the Riksdag
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hjalmar Branting Arvid Lindman Raoul Hamilton
Party Social Democratic Electoral League Free-minded National
Last election 86 59 62
Seats won 75 71 47
Seat change 11 12 15
Popular vote 195,121 183,019 143,355
Percentage 29.6% 27.8% 21.8%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Johan Andersson ? Zeth Höglund
Party Farmers' League National Farmers' Social Democratic Left
Last election 9 3 11
Seats won 20 10 7
Seat change 9 5 4
Popular vote 52,318 40,623 42,056
Percentage 7.9% 6.2% 6.4%

Prime Minister before election

Hjalmar Branting
Social Democratic

PM-elect

Louis de Geer
Independent

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Social Democratic Party195,12129.675–11
General Electoral League183,01927.871+14
Free-minded National Association143,35521.847–15
Farmers' League52,3187.920+9
Social Democratic Left Party42,0566.47–4
National Farmers' Association40,6236.210+5
Other parties1,6910.300
Invalid/blank votes2,011
Total660,1941002300
Registered voters/turnout1,192,92255.3
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular vote
S
29.65%
AV
27.81%
FL
21.78%
B
7.95%
SSV
6.39%
JR
6.17%
Others
0.26%
Parliament seats
S
32.61%
AV
30.87%
FL
20.43%
B
8.70%
JR
4.35%
SSV
3.04%

References

  1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1858 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1853
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1871
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